Eric Veiga

Eric Veiga
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-02-18) 18 February 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 AVS
Number 27
Youth career
FC Mondercange
–2012 RFC Union
2013–2015 Bayer Leverkusen
2015–2016 Eintracht Braunschweig
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 Eintracht Braunschweig II 44 (4)
2019–2020 Aves 2 (0)
2020–2023 Vilafranquense 60 (1)
2023– AVS 0 (0)
International career‡
2014 Luxembourg U19 3 (0)
2015 Portugal U18 3 (0)
2016 Portugal U19 1 (0)
2016– Luxembourg 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 June 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 September 2024

Eric Veiga (born 18 February 1997) is a Luxembourgish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or midfielder for Liga Portugal 2 club AVS.[1]

Club career

In 2015, Veiga joined the under-19 side of German club Eintracht Braunschweig from the youth of Bayer 04 Leverkusen.[2] On 3 March 2016, he made his debut for Eintracht Braunschweig II in the Regionalliga Nord.[3]

In July 2019, Veiga moved to Portuguese club C.D. Aves, starting for the club's U23-squad.[4]

International career

Veiga represented both Luxembourg and Portugal at youth international level. On 18 May 2016, he was called up to the Luxembourg senior team by then manager Luc Holtz for a match against Nigeria,[5] but did not play. Veiga made his debut for Luxembourg on 2 September 2016 in a friendly against Latvia.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Luso-descendente Eric Veiga chamado para defrontar a Nigéria". Luxemburger Wort (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Veiga wechselt nach Braunschweig". Luxemburger Wort (in German). Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Hannover 96 II 0:2 Eintracht Braunschweig II". kicker.de. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  4. ^ Lusodescendente Eric Veiga assina contrato profissional com o Desportivo das Aves, wort.lu, 19 July 2019
  5. ^ "Holtz beruft Kader für Nigeria-Spiel". L'essentiel (in German). Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Des débuts de mi-temps catastrophiques". Luxemburger Wort (in French). Retrieved 2 September 2016.